When your box freezes up again, do a memory dump. This will take longer but will give HP something to diagnose. > Hello hp friends, > Friday afternoon our hp locked up. Freezing all of our users, > and even the console attached directly to the hp. > I wasn't here but the manager was, and he said nothing unusual > was happening at the time and he tried everything to get it to > go to go. He ended up just powering down the system with the key > and rebooting. > It worked fine until about 6:30am this morning. When I got in I > was told they were locked up. There were only 4 people here at > 6:30 am so I don't think overload was the issue. > I first went to console and was able to type showjob but when I > pressed enter the console did nothing. Subsequent keystrokes > were not logged to screen. > I then pinged it from a pc to the internal IP address and got a > good time back. Then I tried to telnet in, which timed out. I > then re-pinged and got a timeout on the ping... no further pings > or telnet tries were able to reach internal, or external ip > addresses... > I then went and looked at the hp box. Everthing sounded > "normal" I didn't hear anything odd and all the right fans > seemed to be whirring away with occasional harddrive > clicks(normal clicks). Screen said ffff occasionally flipping to > ffcf I think or ffef which it normally does when running... > > I went to console and tried a "Cnt+B RS Y" like I would to do a > reboot. I was thinking maybe the system was getting the > keystrokes but the terminal display was locked. No luck there. > I then called the manager who said to key it off... > > After a start norecovery everything seems fine again... > > My question is how do I go about diagnosing this problem?? I > looked at the last job which is our endofday processing. It runs > a backup and then streams some shipping close streams. The last > one logged off at 4:30am as normal... > > Any help would be much appriciated, > Gehan > > __________________________________ > Do you Yahoo!? > Yahoo! SiteBuilder - Free, easy-to-use web site design software > http://sitebuilder.yahoo.com > > * To join/leave the list, search archives, change list settings, * > * etc., please visit http://raven.utc.edu/archives/hp3000-l.html * * To join/leave the list, search archives, change list settings, * * etc., please visit http://raven.utc.edu/archives/hp3000-l.html *